Fair Fun...

Yep! Family Night at the fair. SOoooo Much FUN!! We saw cows from all the dairies I have been working at, pet and fed pigs and sheep, ate insanely fatty delicious food and my favorite: went on most all the fair rides with my siblings and felt so so so sick. I'd say I am a trooper. Can you believe those gunnysack slides are even more amazing when you are older, you shoot like a bullet...so much fun! I totally loved the great kern county fair.
Me and the cow
Cameron and a cow
Funky fun house
Jennie and I petting the pigNot so sure about this feeding a pig thing...I so thought he would bite right through the water bottle.Three lamb girls getting ready for our first ride...holy moly the rush!This sheep just stuck it's head out to be touched... weird, but ok

multifunctional

So apparently I'm a multifunctional employee. After probably 5 years, with the phone instruction of my brother about where gears are, and the help of a mechanic to help jump the dead battery, I was able to drive a truck again. On this rare occasion that I was of no use sitting in a scale house, but my skills were of use to haul feed from one field to a dairy 6 miles away...I jumped at the opportunity. Here's me and my "barney" truck, as the mechanic called it, apparently I got crazy dirty spraying it off (see pic). I liked it just fine...it was most exciting driving on I-5 for 4 miles between the field and dairy. Who knows, maybe you'll see me on your travels one day....

who says work isn't educational..

Harvesting process: Corn is chopped by a chopper and is ground into small bits and sent to a truck via a spout. The truck is then weighed at a scale by a wonderful scale lady (that's me). Once the weight is taken the corn is taken to a "pit" or mound and a huge heavy tractor runs over the corn packing it and preserving it for cows during the off season.
How to determine the moisture of a corn field.
This is an important process as it determines whether a harvesting crew continues cutting the corn or not. If the moisture is in the ideal range: 69-70% dairymen and farmers are happy as clowns, if above they start to freak out and then harvesting is halted until the corn dries out. If below, they are not happy either...so it's my job to take "samples," about three handfuls, of this ground up corn and put it on a cooker to determine its moisture. Here is the tedious process:

Watch and Learn:
Basket is weighed

Corn placed in the basket (100grams)
Corn placed on a cooker for 35mins or a little more
Basket with dried out corn weighed again
The difference from the precooked corn to the dried corn is the % of moisture. Gee, don't you feel smart now!?

Oh and if you ever wonder where one who weighs trucks works, here's a little snippet of "my office" from one of the dairies.

I heart working!